A depressing and pathetic battle is going on in a Los Angeles courtroom to win control of the paltry belongings of the notorious murderer and cult leader Charles Manson. All that is at stake in the dispute over his will are the clothes he owned and maybe two or three guitars — the stuff he h…
“There’s a choice we’re making. We’re saving our own lives.” — “We Are The World”
We seem to be hearing a lot about transgender people these days. They have been around for a very long time. But now it seems to be a hot political issue as governors and legislators seek to capitalize on the fears of many ill-informed voters. These are fears such as who can use which bathro…
Inflation is wreaking havoc on America’s consumers, and the associated shortages and supply chain disruptions are driving prices ever higher across the economy — especially in the energy sector. Among the most troubling roadblocks to alleviating this pain is America’s inability to efficientl…
“When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing.”
Population aging is complicating retirement planning for Americans, and specifically for immigrants. As a 2017 National Academy of Science study showed, Mexican immigrants who arrive at older ages often struggle to support themselves in the United States and often consider returning home. Ye…
On Monday evening news broke that the FBI searched the Florida home of Donald Trump, the former president. In fact, Trump himself informed the world, calling it a “raid” and an “assault.”
🎧 The hosts debate whether we are interpreting the Bible correctly, the existence of an afterlife and the effectiveness of prayer.
In the week since he reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer on the “Inflation Reduction Act,” Sen. Joe Manchin has been everywhere promoting it. One of the West Virginia Democrat’s top selling points is the promise to speed up permitting for U.S. energy production. It’s a worthwhile idea. Stifling domestic production to send a message to the world about climate change has ...
This Saturday afternoon I’ll be front row center at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas for “My Fair Lady,” its 2022-23 Broadway season launch. It will be the third time I’ve seen a live performance of the American theater classic.
Co-hosted by Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams and Kelli Lemon, After the Monuments captures the zeitgeist of a nation struggling to move from symbolic to substantive change on racial issues.
On Tuesday hundreds of Waco residents showed up at the Convention Center to attend the city council meeting. Though a “Grace Act” that would effectively decriminalize abortion in Waco was not on the council’s agenda, opponents and supporters of the proposal by District 4 Council Member Kelly…
This month, more than 47 million children will enter public education buildings across the country for the start of a new year. Although many aspects of this school year will be new for our children — new teachers, new classmates, new curricula — the fundamental structure of public education…
Chinese rhetoric over Taiwan is getting more strident all the time. It’s hard to believe the Chinese will go beyond the kind of big talk we’ve been hearing since Chiang Kai-shek fled there with his defeated forces before the victory of Mao’s Red Army on the mainland in 1949, but the shrill n…
With so much attention fixed on soaring prices for gasoline and groceries, one can almost overlook the fact that we’re also enduring an affordable housing crisis. The question is, why? Spanning the pandemic era from February 2020 through May 2022, home prices soared 43.5%. Over the past 12 months, home prices are up 19.7%, while residential property prices in the United States, adjusted for ...
The Texas economy has been setting the standard for economic growth, leading the country in major new corporate locations for the past 10 straight years. The population is also diverse and growing, which is not the case in many parts of the country. We’re also seeing the continued emergence …
America, when it comes to the sins of its history, has lacked a "never again" moment.
Even as Europe has been dealing with its hottest summer on record, it has been fearfully aware that it may face its worst winter since the one at the end of World War II, from 1944 to 1945.
This week, he has a high-visibility time slot on the opening day of CPAC Texas, the once annual conservative conference that’s become such a successful grift for Republicans, it’s now held multiple times a year.
What do you even write when the most powerful lobbying force in your state not only loses a pivotal election, but gets their heads handed to them? The immediate reaction is shock. The secondary reaction is that something may be changing; that we could be seeing a generational shift where the pressure politics of the past don’t work anymore. In January, when more than two-thirds of our state ...
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In an era of ugly legislative gridlock, it’s easy to forget that progress isn’t necessarily pretty.
🎧 How do ethics fit into our decisions about where to shop and work?
Commentary: Too many people no longer see religion as essential to their understanding of living a good life.
"He was a gamechanger on and off the court," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
The founders of a new political party, “Forward,” acknowledge that third parties usually fail. They say that previous third-party efforts flopped “either because they were ideologically too narrow or the population was uninterested.” Theirs will succeed, they reason, because polls show that Americans are eager for an alternative to the two dominant parties and theirs will be broad-based and ...
The climate crisis has encircled and ravaged the globe in 2022, with land and ocean heat waves, drought, crop damage, wildfire, floods, famine and death. The city of Waco has been scorched, with nearly 50 days of 100-degree or above temperatures. The persistent drought in McLennan County has…
In this episode, Kelli and Michael Paul are talking with Dr. Wes Bellamy again. Dr. Bellamy, former vice mayor of Charlottesville and former member of the Charlottesville City Council, recalls the events immediately before, during and after the deadly Unite the Right Rally in 2017.
In this episode, Kelli and Michael Paul are talking with Dr. Wes Bellamy again. Dr. Bellamy recalls the events in Charlottesville immediately before, during and after the deadly Unite the Right Rally in 2017.